Emergency car-seat.



PATENTED APR. 12, 1904.

M. H. MURCH, JR. EMERGENCY CAR SEAT.

APPLICATION IIL'ED AUG.17, 1903.

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UNITED STATES- Patented April 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

EMERGENCY CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 757,334, dated April 12, 1904. Application filed August 17, 1903. Serial No. 169,705- (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAYNARD H. MUROHJ r. a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Emergency Car-Seats, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of the invention is to provide a railway-car with supplementary seats which may occupy positions substantially out of the way of the passengers orwhich may be turned so as to increase the seating capacity of the car without occupying much of the aisle-space.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter de scribed, and pointed out definitely in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of that end of a car-seat adjacent to the aisle with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same mechanism which is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 8 is a rear view thereof. These three views show the seat when turned down in the useful position. Fig. 4 is a sectional rear view when the supplementary seat is turned up.

Referring to the parts by letters, A represents a car-seat, B the back thereof, and C one of the movable side members of the back frame. These parts as shown are of familiar form and are in common use. It will be understood that the back frame may be swung so that the back may occupy a position in front of or behind the seat, and thus said seat is adapted for use whichever may be the head end of the car.

The clamp which supports the supplementary seat E is constructed so as to adapt it for easy connection with a part of the main seatframein the present instance the side frame member G. As these side frame members'are generally constructed they are offset in that part which is in line with the seat A, having the outwardly bent part c and the downwardly extended part 0'. The clamp, as

shown, is especially constructed for connection to the particular side frame here shown. It consists of two opposite counterpart pieces d, each having a U shaped part 03, which takes over the edge of the outwardly-extended part c of the member C. A portion of each of the clamp-pieces rests upon this oflset part c and is jointed with adownwardly-extended part 0Z which lies against the outer face of the part 0' of the member C. Each of these clamp-pieces has also an outwardly-extended arm d A bolt K extends through the two arms d and draws them together, so that they maintain their engagement with the member C and also prevent the removal from between them of the block F. This block F lies between these two arms 0Z to which it is pivoted by horizontal pivots f, which may be in the form of trunnions, which are parts of said block.

Gr represents a seat-arm which rests upon the flat top surface of the block F, to which it is pivoted by a vertical bolt H, which passes down through the block F. The seat E is fastened to the outer end of this seat-arm, and the under surface of this seat-arm is so arranged relative to the described parts that it may swing over and rest upon the arms 0Z when the seat is in the position shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 8. When the seat is not in use, it may be turned up, as shown in Fig. 4; but it can only be turned up into this position by first swinging the seat-arm into a position extending horizontally atright angles out from the member C. When the seat is turned down, it can only be maintained in a horizontal position by swinging it forward or backward, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, until the arm G is over and resting upon one of the arms 61 When in this position, a passenger may sit upon it facing forward,and he will occupy no greater part of the aisle than he would if standing up. I

The specific form of clamp shown is, as before stated, especially contrived for use with the particular frame or back frame member C which is shown; but if it were desired to use the device with a seat having some other form of frame member a clamp suitable for adjustment thereto would be employed.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination of a clamp adapted for attachment to the frame of acar-seat, a block 'two counterpart members adapted at their inner ends to embrace the edges of aframe member of a car-seat, and having two outwardlyextended arms,'a block lying between said arms and pivoted thereto on a horizontal axis, a bolt for drawing said clamp members together to hold them in the described relationship with the seat-frame member and with said block, an arm resting upon said block and pivoted thereto on a vertical axis and adapted to be turned upon said axis so as to extend over and rest upon one of the outwardly-extended clamp-arms, and a seat secured to said seat-arm, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MAYNARD H.v MURCH, JR.

Witnesses:

-M. H. MUROH,

E. L. THURSTON. 

